Commentary: Racing legend Trickle never slowed down

7:37 PM,
May 17, 2013

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Written by

Dick Knapinski
For Post-Crescent Media

Broadcaster Mike Joy leaned in during a rain delay in the Winston Cup race and asked Dick Trickle on camera, "Think the rain will stop?"

"It always does," Trickle replied.

Whatever dark clouds Dick Trickle had in his life apparently wouldn't go away, however, as he took his own life in North Carolina on Thursday. It ended a remarkable life where most people unfamiliar to the man thought of him only as an unfortunate name. Those who knew racing, though, knew better. ...